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DECEMBER 22, 五拜爬號二十月二十英港香 FRIDAY,
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Heavy Air Raids On Helsingfors But Few Casualties
On
STALIN'S BIRTHDAY
TO
FINLAND
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”.
HELSINGFORS, DEC. 21 (UP).—IT IS OFFICIALLY REPORTED THAT RED PLANES, IN A BRIGHT BLUE SKY, ROARED IN THREE ́ ́ WAVES ALONG THE SOUTH COAST, STRAFED TWO TRAINS AND BOMBED THE PRINCIPAL CITIES INCLUDING THE HEL- SINGFORS HOSPITAL DISTRICT.
However, Finnish Army officials reported they marked Stalin's birthday by repulsing powerful new attacks on the Karelian Isthmus and presing their counter-offensive on the east front and regaining some lost ground in the far north.
Offielally, more than 30 bombs dronned within the city limits of Helsingfors, some of which damaged an emergency Red Cross station, the Nurses' Dormitory and a hospital building containing a children's play room, an operating room and several other structures in the hospital zone, most of which had been previously
AIR BATTLE. OVER UTRECHT
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 21 (Reuter). Hundreds of people in the streets watch- ́ed an air battle fought over Utrecht to-day between Dutch and foreign planes.
The nationality of the foreign planes is not yet disclosed.
The foreign machines finally put out a smoke- screen and disappeared. London Has No Knowledga
LONDON, Dec. 21 (Reu- ter).It is learned that the Air Ministry has no know. ledge of the reported air battle over Holland.
British Tributes To Capt. Langsdorff
evacuated.
Officials said they had not been informed of reports that several of the raiders had been brought down but said two persons had been killed in Helsingfors und three were killed elsewhere.
Five bombs were dropped in one small village hear the capital and six more in another small village nearby. During the last of four alarms, plones were hoord over the capitni rall stations. All trains were stopped but no bombs feil,
One bomb in Helsingfors pierced three floors of a Ave story dwelling but did not explode, "
Fifteen houses were set aire and ten demolished at Abo, while two were set afire at Tammerfors, both places on the south coast.
It is feared the casualties were high in both towns
Ten bombs were dropped on Hangoe Island; 12 on the hills or in the river around Provo and 12 in the nearby town of Lappuvik.
Cold Aids Finns
which were rained
011 Helsingfors
and its suburbs,
Returning from Helsingfors to Abo,
the Russian airmen swooped down on an express train and raked it with | machine-gum fire.
Was
Two people were reported killed and two wounded.
A second train
similarly attacked but there were no casualties. Two separate raids occurred at Helsingfors and its suburbs,
When the Orthopaedic Hospital was hit, an operation was in progress.
Karolian Isthmus Fighting HELSINGFORS, Dec. 21 (Reuter); -~-~~Ʌ communique issued to-day states that in the Karelian Isthmus enemy attacks continted.
the tyre
with the TEETH
Russians Mowed Down
In Thousands
GIFTStory Of
Awful Carnage
WAS WAS
BOMBS
THE M.D.L. LINER GNEISENAU.
N.D.L. Liner Gneisenau Reported Sunk By Explosion In
SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH"
Baltic
COPENHAGEN, DEC. 21 (DOMEI)-RELIABLE INFORMATION FROM LATVIAN CIRCLES HERE REPORT THAT. THE 18,180-TON NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD LINER GNEISENAU, WHICH WAS ON THE FAR EASTERN RUN BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WAR, HAS BEEN Eight Soviet tanks were destroyed. SUNK BY EXPLOSION IN THE BALTIC SEA,
Kassians have suffered many losses and have made no progress.
The Finns bombarded Russian rear- guard detachments, inflleting heavy casualties.
On the north-cast front, the Finnish advance towards Salla has continued.
Enemy-aircraft continued. their..ut tacks yesterday, mostly being ro pulsed. HELSINGFORS, Dec. 21 (Reuter),
The Finns brought down six pinnes. -Soviet planes to-day ralded Hel- | but 23 civilians, including women singfors.
and children, were killed.
The cold weather is being main- tained and the Finns, who are better
REDEEMED equipped to meet it, hope that the
HIMSELF
Suicide As Protest
temperature will drop even lower jespecially us it is reported that most of the Soviet troops come .from central and routhern Russlo.
54 Degrees Of Frost
In the Far North, It is not so cold as on the previous day when 541
Of Whole Nazi Navy degrees of frost was experienced.
It has stopped snowing.
LONDON, Dec. 21 (Reuter). In this area, the Finja claim to The British Press to-day de lave made a valuable bombing raid, voted the bulk of its comments using the seven Soviet planey whose pilots had surrendered rather than
Telephones Discontinued AMSTERDAM, Dec. 21 (Reuter)— Telephonic communication with Helsingfors was completely cut this afternoon.
It is not known whether
U.S. SHIPS the cause of the explosion NEW R.A. F.
FOR EAST
New Service To H.K. Projected
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
was internal or external.
The Gncisonau sailed from Riga with German repatriates aboard on December 2.
It is believed that the majority of the passengers have perished. They included about 109 German workers
returning to Vie Reich for special duties.
Speedy Trip SINGAPORE, Dec, 21 (UP). The Gneisenau was well-known in -Beginning what is believed Hongkong, where she last arrived on Europe, arriving at Bremen before
RUSSIA'S Hkely to be a growing tendency July 27. She made a speedy trip to
BLUNDER Committed To A Losing War
to divert American ships to the the outbreak of the war. Far East, it was announced to- A sister ship. the Scharnhorst, is day that the City of Newport at present in Kobe harbour, where News, the City of Los Angeles, she fled to from Manila Just before
the outbreak of war.
The Potstar, the City of Norfolk and the a third sloter-ship, was en route to City of San Francisco, formerly Hongkong from Europe when war of the United States Lines, started, and landed her passengers will in future be operated by the at a Spanish port. She is now be American President Line between lieved to be at Trieste. LONDON, Dec. 21 (Reuter). Singapore and New York via Manila,
Los Angeles and the Panama Canal.- the-Events are proving that
The Admira Y. H. Williams, which Russia did not intend to commit
has been chartered by the President herself, to a major campaign in | Line, sailed for the United States fo- Finland, states "Renter's" mill- day. tary correspondent.
to the suicide of Captain Langs- nghi the Finns dorff, drawing conclusions from They bombed one Murmansk- it as to Hitler's notion of sea Leningrad Railway,
of supply to the warfare.
Polar front,
the main route Russians on
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
The Times" pays tribute to Capt. Langsdorff us u seaman and says that it is a tragedy that such men to-day cannot serve their country save in the livery of the Gulf of Bothnia, neutral corres conceived by the Soviet Staff as
The Invasion was apparently
a "walk-over," but it has failed already owing to the inadequacy of initial preparations,
Finnith Victory Verified On the central front, where the Soviets are trying to cut through to verify a master, whom in their hearts they pondents have been able to
reports of a big Finnish victory after must despise.
The Dally Telegraph" says that several days of fighting. Capt. Langsdorff has proved thai ho At one place, they saw the remains feared nothing but dishonour... He of a Russian camp which was wiped
not enduro could
tho Ignomlay out on Tuesday night when the Finns which Hiller Imposed on him and he came through the forests and down the slopes on their skis, and picked
...The weather has now come to the off the Soviets as they stood there.
It was so cold that none of the old of the Finns and both sides ind lond operations in the heavy snow Delay Will Aid Finns
redeemed himself.
Ruthless Terrorism Discussing the attacks on defence wounded survived. The frozen bodies less Eshing craft by "Nazi planes, the lof Soviet troops were too numerous paper says.that this is an equal tri- to count, neutral observers report. bulo to Hitler's methods,
Slaughter of this kind is not an
· operation, of war but ruthless, fer- Torism.
All the worst tactics of the old German Reich have been taken over by Hitler as a geing concern.
The "News Chronicle" says that Langsdorff's suicido must be read not "enly as a protest by the Graf Spee's commander himself but from the whole German Navy against a decl- sion which once agala hus brought the name of Ocmany into contempt before the world,
Fow Lines Obituary
Hospitals. Bombed
Many of the tanks which fell into the hands of the Finhs have run com- pletely out of fuel.
impossible.
The "wasp waist" drive towards the Gulf of Bothnia seems Ilkely to be helt up until the snows melt in
̈ HELSINGFORS, Des 21 (Reu- the spring. -ter) It l'now learned that three! The operation against the Manner- hospitals were hit in the raid this heim Line is likely to be spasmodic, afternoon, namely the Orthopaedle, while in the extreme north, owing to Sisters of Mercy and the Blind the intense cold, it is unlikely that School,"
there will be any further develop- ments.
Delay will be in Finland's favour, Reinforcements in money und material at least will be forthcoming and some proportion of her troops may be able to rest and re-organto.
Thirty high-explosivé bombs were dropped by 12 planes.
Two of these planes are reported to have been aliot down.
There were very few casualties. Bombs were also dropped near a
dressing Blooms and a Red Cross Danish Diplomatic
station,
South Coast Towns Raided
Appointments
BERLIN. DN, 1 (Router),~Ger- Tranewspapers give only a few lines to the death of Capt. Langsdorff, HELSINGFORS, Dec. 21 (Reuter).} COPENHAGEN, Dec. 21 (Router); although two weeks ago he was be-Soviet warplanes raided towns nli-It's officially announced that the ing hailed as | grest navòl, victor, inlong Finland's south const from Government has "deemed it oppor- The main reference to his suicide Borgu, 30 miles east of Helsingfors, tune in the present circumstances" to has corne not from the usual oicial to Abg, 100 miles west of the capital, Appoint naval attaches to the Lega- PLEASE To Turn Pago 4. 'dropping about 40 bombs, 30 of tions in London and Berlin.”
To Call At Hongkong
NEW YORK, Dec. 21, (UP)—The American, Provident Lities, to-day! stated that they have leased the bottoms enty- Far Eastern" runs. The United States Lines will retum operation during the coastwise circuit. Transit through the Canal Zone will be monthly instead of weekly,
The ships will call at Hongkong Bad Feringg, dadition to the ports mentioned in the above report, *.
AUTONOMY FOR
DOMINICA
FIGHTERS
Britain's Answer To Messerschmidts
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
STOCKHOLM, Dèc. ··21 |(UP).—“I have just return- ed from the North Salla battlefield after treading. my way through thousands of dead, both Russians and Finns, lying in long, silent rows for several kilo- [metres."
This is the dramatic lead in an leye-witness story, one of the first Ito come from the battle area, by.. the War Correspondent of the Stockholm "Dagens Nyheters."
LONDON, Dec. 21 (UP).- Britain's answer to the German, Messerschmidt pursuit planes- new two-seater fighters which are faster and more powerful than the Hurricanes or Spitfires has already been tested andj has entered full production.
Considering the British version! of the recent large-scale air bat. tle over the Heligoland Bight, in which it is claimed that at These three ships, capable of pro- least fifty per cent, or at least ducing over 21 knots, held the Blue twelve, of the super-Messerschi- Riband for the Europe-Asia service midts were brought down, it is via the Suez.
believed that the new British planes Of 18,180-tons each, they were.will effectively outfight anything
Hitler may have up his alceve.
One of the new British fighters will be known as the Boulton-Paul...
· ranked fourth in size in the N.D.L. Fleet. They were exceeded in size only by the 57,000-ton Bremen, the 49,000-ton Europa and the 32,800- are and scuttled at sea earlier ion Columbus. The latter was set
this week.
The Gneisenau was launched at the Deutsche A. G. yards in Weser PLEASE Turn To Page 4.
DECORATED BY KING
in
LONDON, Dec 21 (Betleh Wis- Former Hongkong Naval
less).-An Order in Council made oni December 20 under the provision of
Officer's Bravery
It is an all-metal plane equipped with a multi-gun swivel turret, situated behind the pilot in the cock- pit...
It has a wing span of 304-feet and a fuselage 30 feet long.
PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.
The correspondent adds that it is Impossible to bury the dead, whose bodies lie frozen in the snow,
Mowed Down In Thousands
"Russian cavalry and Infantry have been mowed down in thousands by the terribly efficient fire of Finnish machine-guiners.
"Even the Finns themselves Ate surprised at the mass slaughter they have Inflicted.
"Near
two Russian ammunition: dumps which have been captured by- the Finns I saw the lone corpse of a Russian soldier slumped over a sew- jing machine. The Russian had been· jmending uniforms when he was
killed.-
"Nearby stands an overturned-
truck. A Russian baker lies beside carrying when it was struck by a Finnish shell'
it under a heap of bread which it was
Tried To Hide In Snow
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CHRISTMAS PUDDING AS
HEAVY AS THREE MEN
The Christmas pudding made at the Hongkong Hotel weighs 421 lbs., or as much as three average men!
Its recipe is as follows: 200 pieces of silver plate, 0,800 pieces of
Supervising thes
the Dominics Act of 1938 xen LONDON, Dec. 21. (Reuter), January 1, 1940, as the appointed
-The King to-day decorated date for the Transfer of Dominica from the colony, of Leeward Islanda the commander and other mem-eggs, 45 lbs, of raisins, 20 lbs. of cutlery and 7,000 plates will be used. dinners on and provides for its government from bers of the crew of the sub-currants, 21 lbs. of lemon skin At the three speetal that date as a separate colony in the marine Salmon, which last week 30 lbs. of white, bread crumbs Year's Eve it is expected 2,000 d Inters Christmas, Boxing Day and New Windward Islands group.
carried out one of the most bril. 10 lbs. of flour, six bottles of will be served. Jedantities A Commission was appointed come time ago by the Colonial Office to in-lant submarine exploits of this spice, six bottles of brandy, four
|bottles of rum and 30 lbs. of suct of food is the tall Swise chol, quire into the question of a closer war and the last union between the Leeward and Lieut.-Commander E. O. B Blek- For the special dinner on Sunday Leopold Gaddi, who has personally served, 15 gallons of turtle soup windoor, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas
such as Duke whether a regrouping was desirablo. was formerly aliached to the China
The Dominicans specially requested Biation, serving in H.M.S. Odin, has 710 lbs. of sole, 230 lbs. of Argentine
Atlet beet, 320
320 lbs. the transfer which is about to be been awarded the Distinguished Ser-
of Australian Fairbonics and a host of others.. given" effect.
vioe Order and promoted to the rank turkey, 445 lbs. saddle of New Zen- Leopold served his apprenticeship In the view of the Secretary, of of Commander.
land lamb, 450 chicken squab, and at the famous Grand Hotel, Ostand, State, ở change appears to be econo- - It will be recalled that the Salmon for the sweets 14 bottles of cherry in Berne Overland, the fashionable winter and summer resori. "After mically and racially suitable for firat wank a U-bost and then for brandy will be used, Dominien and an Act of Parliament pedoed two German cruisers, the
The scullery start and washing 3 years he passed his Diploma of was passed te provide for the change.) Leipzig" and the Bluecher.
michines will work overtimo no 240 PLEASE: Turn To Pare 4anichini
Windward Islands arid to ascertain ford. The commanding officer, who
might 000, Palestine grape-fruits will attend celcurities is the wants of